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Roger Guy

Professor /Chairperson

Chairperson

Contact

444 Mahar Hall

315.312.3406

315.312.5444

roger.guy@oswego.edu

Roger Guy, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego. He began his career in law enforcement at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in the early 1990s in the division of Planning and Research where he worked on their first efforts at strategic planning. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published in the areas of prisoner reentry, community corrections, and correctional policy. His work has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, and Journal of Applied Social Science, Victims and Offenders, and Federal Probation. He has also published qualitative work based on ethnographic research in Chicago. His most recent book, a community study in a Chicago neighborhood, appeared in 2016 and published by Rowman and Littlefield. Dr. Guy is currently engaged in research in biosocial criminology. His recent research includes collecting DNA samples from offenders and genotyping them for genetic risk for violent behavior. His most recent article is entitled, “Bioethics and Biosocial Criminology: Hurdling the Status Quo” addresses the ideological and cultural obstacles to conducting biosocial research, and applications for biosocial research in crime prevention. The article will appear in the journal, Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health in 2018.

Mario Paparozzi and Roger Guy, 2013. “Reentry: Parole by Any Other Name” in John Smykla and Matthew Crow, eds. Offender Reentry in the 21st Century: Voices of Researchers and Practitioners, Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

Roger Guy and Mario Paparozzi (2011) “The Social Impact of an Aging Inmate Population on Prisoner Reentry,” (Lynne Rienner Publishers).